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Feature	Ghost
STOA Rating	4.0
Description	Ghost helps you spin up and manage game servers on your own Hetzner Cloud account without touching the command line. You get a control panel that handles provisioning, starting, stopping, and deleting servers in about 60 seconds. Your servers and billing stay in your own Hetzner account — Ghost just orchestrates the work.
Strengths	•Servers are ready in ~60 seconds thanks to pre-baked Hetzner snapshots — no waiting for installs or downloads •You own the infrastructure — your Hetzner account, your billing, your data even if you stop using Ghost •No open inbound management ports on VMs, which reduces your attack surface •Open-source codebase available on GitHub for full transparency
Weaknesses	•Requires you to have and manage your own Hetzner Cloud account — not a fully managed hosting service •New Hetzner accounts are capped at 5 servers until manually verified, which can block growth •No public pricing listed — unclear what Ghost itself costs beyond your Hetzner bill •Appears to be an early-stage, single-developer project with limited proven production traction
Key Features	•Provision a game server in roughly 60 seconds using a pre-baked disk image (snapshot) •Control servers from a web dashboard — start, stop, restart, and delete with one click •Keep your own Hetzner Cloud account and billing; Ghost never holds your VMs •Stream live server logs and activity events directly in the dashboard •Secure agent communication using signed, outbound-only requests — no open management ports
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Best For	All industries
AI Features	None
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STOA Verdict	Ghost is built for technically comfortable small teams or indie developers who want to self-host game servers without managing raw infrastructure scripts. You get a clean dashboard and fast provisioning, but you still need to set up and fund your own Hetzner account — this is not a plug-and-play hosting service. There is no public pricing for Ghost itself, and the project looks early-stage, so most small businesses would be better served by a managed game hosting provider until Ghost matures.
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Ghost

4.0

Ghost helps you spin up and manage game servers on your own Hetzner Cloud account without touching the command line. You get a control panel that handles provisioning, starting, stopping, and deleting servers in about 60 seconds. Your servers and billing stay in your own Hetzner account — Ghost just orchestrates the work.

Strengths

•Servers are ready in ~60 seconds thanks to pre-baked Hetzner snapshots — no waiting for installs or downloads
•You own the infrastructure — your Hetzner account, your billing, your data even if you stop using Ghost
•No open inbound management ports on VMs, which reduces your attack surface
•Open-source codebase available on GitHub for full transparency

Weaknesses

•Requires you to have and manage your own Hetzner Cloud account — not a fully managed hosting service
•New Hetzner accounts are capped at 5 servers until manually verified, which can block growth
•No public pricing listed — unclear what Ghost itself costs beyond your Hetzner bill

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